Local and General News

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 63, 27 November 1886, Page 2

Local and General News

The Sandon Hack Race meeting will be. held on St. Patrick's day. Mr Gilbert, pianoforte tuner, will be in Feilding next Tuesday. The Jane Douglas will leave Foxton to-morrow (Sunday) at 8 a.m. On and after December Ist trains will cease to stop at Westoe platform. The Palmorston Mayoralty cost the last Mayor £200 during his term of office. It is reported, in London, that the Czar intends to deliver a speech at Moscow today. Wo have roceived T. K. Mac Donald's Wellington Landed Proporty Guide for November. An earthquake was felt here on Friday morning at 12.50 o'clock. The shock was a severe one. The Manchester Horticultural Show will be held in the Public Hall on Wednesday next. Mr Daw's band will perform in Palmerston, at the show of fireworks on Monday night. Nominations for tho Foilding Boxing Day sports will close on Saturday the 11th of December. A notice appears to-day from the Property Tax Commissioner to which we refer those interested. Mr Rotherain, formerly manager on the Wanganui section of railway, went' up by train on Thursday night. There will be a rehearsal of " Patience in the Public Hall to-night at 8 o'clockPunctuality is specially requested. The first instalment appears to-day of entries for Messrs Steyons and Gorton's Palmerston sale ou Thursday, December 2nd. Henry George writes many books to prove that property should be held in • common, but he copyrights his books, so as to retain their ownership.

A letter fr >m Dr Monckton is held over until next issue. j The proposed woollen factory in Napier, if carried out, will' be one of the best paving institutions in the colony, with ordinary good management. j Tlie Heiuid says :— Mr Burnett's New | Zealand tour does not appear to have ' bi»e» a success, finiiucially and donations are now being called for by his friends. , j A boxing match has been arranged i between J. Laurie and H. Laing for £10 aside to come off on December 6th. Laing hasmany admirers in Feildiug who hope to hear of his success. Thomas Hall, the would be wife murderer, was taken to Timaru this morning. Ho will be charged with the murder of Captain Cain, at the R.M. court, Timaru, on Monday morning at 11 a.m. In order to meet the requirements of the travelling public, it is probable a line of coaches will be established between Feilding and Palmerston. This is one of the effects of the railway timetable. To-day we publish an advertisement showing the time trains will leave Feilding for North and South. We would suggest to our readers that they excise the notice and keep it for future reference. . Where is the Inspector of Nuisances ? During the past few days the carcase of a " prime" sheep has been " perfuming " the air in the neighborhood of Grey street, near, we believe, the railway crossing. The King of the Sandwich Islands is hard up and wants to make a rise of cash. He says this trying to run the King business' on credit is a great strain on the mind, as he has not power to kill off creditors. • The man who pays for his newspaper in advance is the personification of ail the virtues. The English language cannot supply words to express the wickedness .of the man who does not pay for his paper at all. Mr Syendson, to mark the coming of the festive Christmas season, has recently had his premises repainted, and otherwise embellished by the painter's art. The shop has now a most presentable and attractive appearance. The Manchester Bifles paraded last night for Government Inspection. There was a full muster. The men were instructed in guard mounting and posting sentries. This afternoon they are now having judging distance parade. ' You say that women haye no brains,' said Mrs Bagley, severely, 'yet you expeot me to Bave enough out of $10 a week to get a silk dress every thren months. Doesn't that - require brains P You can't save enough from you cigar biil to buy a necktie.' We (Chronicle) understand that the "Ret. Dr Harvey has xecured the services for the Collegiate School, of a Cambridge University man of high attainments. The new teacher has arrived in the colony, and will commence his duties lifter the Christmas vacation. Cheap excursion fares will be run from Palmerston to Wellington on Tuesday next, the 30th instant; leaying Palmerston at 8 a.m. Mr E. McKenua, stationmaster at Palmerston, requests us to state that tickets can now be obtained on application at the office. Those who desire to avoid the crush will no doubt take the precaution of securing tickets early. With to-day's issue of the Stab we publish a supplement, containing a quantity of interesting reading matter and a number of advertising favors. The supplement will be issued every Saturday m future, and in the next issue additional reading matter will be given, together with advertisements, among the latter being a special' announcement from S. J. Thompson, of "The Red House." A weddißg was celebrated on Thursday in Feilding, by the Rev. H. Clark, the contracting parties being Mr George Adsett, third son of Mr Henry Adsett, sawmiller, of Taonui, and Miss Ellen Pawson, third daughter of Mr John Pawson, of Feilding; The parents of the bride and bridegroom are old and respected settlers in this district, and the departurn of the happy couple for Wariganui, by the evening's tram was witnessed (amid plentiful showers of rice) by a large number of friends and relatives of the two families. A story is going the round just now about Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes and the benevolent Dr Peabody. One warm summer's day, in Boston, Dr Peabody collided with an old gentleman, who wan holding hit hat in his hand and wiping his brow with his handkerchief. Without locking up, Dr Peabody dropped a quarter of a dollar into tlie hat, muttering a kindly wish an he did so. The position was a trying one for the autocrat, but he was equal to the occasion. He put the quarter into his pocket solemnly thanked his old friend, and walked on. One of the largest American manufacturing and exporting firms, writing by the last mail to an Auckland firm, given the following forecast of buiinem:— Business has greatly improved in that country, with the prospect of a very great boom beginning with IBS - It probably will not reach its height until 1889. Everything indicates a eomaier cial prosperity such as we have not known for the* last four years. We have more orders for the spring of 1887 than we ever ha>l in any previous year in our history at this date. ' Miss Polkalight, and Mr Addemup, of the bank,! whom everybody thought were engaged, and who seemed to be inseparable in Christchurch last week, do not speak now. And all be« enusethe unfortunate clerk was ambi* tious for distinction as a wit. This is tlie way it happened : — The lady, with the faithful accountant nt her side, plunged into the surf, and when she came breathless to the surface «he exclaimed, '• Oh, Charley, my teeth are full of >and." " All right ; hand them out, and I'll rinne them for you," said the reckless wit. Now he swears he did not know they were false, but the chasm will never be bridged oyer. The followine items are from the Manawatu Times:— The many friends of Mr A. B. Iheodore Haultain will be glad to learn that he succeeded in pas* Mug at the general knowledge cxamina* tion held at Wellington recently, and in due course we may expect to see him mastering the mysteries or the law and enrolled as a member of the legal frat *rnity. His perseverance has at last been rewarded.— The pyrotechnic display to be given by Mr Newman on Monday evening next wilt if the weather proves fine, be conducted on a larger seal-- than anything of the kind previously seen in Palmerston. Mr Newman has «r ranged with the Pastoral Association for use of the Show ground, and as this is enclosed by a clo«e boarded fence and some of the most beautiful effects will be produced on the ground, he may re»y on his exhibition proving remunerative on this occasion.